Sunshine in Buochs

Buochs (NW) gets about 1550 hours of sunshine a year, 43% of the possible maximum, or 4.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 12% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 3 of 11 places in Nidwalden. That's about 110 hours more than the Nidwalden average of 1440. Mountains around it block about 180 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1550 hsunshine a year

6.4 ha day in July

0.9 ha day in December

#3 / 11in Nidwalden

Sunshine month by month

Average hours of sunshine per day, 1991–2020. The line shows the most the sun could shine here, with the mountains around it.

Direct sun at the centre on a clear day, with the mountains around it: on 21 December from 11:55 to 15:14, and on 21 June from 06:15 to 20:08.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 3h 13m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 55 min earlier than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.3 h	41 h
February	3.2 h	89 h
March	4.8 h	150 h
April	5.9 h	177 h
May	5.8 h	181 h
June	6.0 h	180 h
July	6.4 h	198 h
August	6.3 h	195 h
September	5.3 h	158 h
October	3.6 h	113 h
November	1.5 h	44 h
December	0.9 h	28 h

Climate in Buochs

10.0 °Cmean temperature

24.6 °CJuly daily high

−1.7 °CJanuary nightly low

1318 mmrain and snow a year

1173 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

436 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Nidwalden

Ennetbürgen 1560 h
Beckenried 1550 h
Stans 1570 h
Hergiswil (NW) 1510 h

Nearby

Ennetbürgen 1560 h
Oberdorf (NW) 1500 h
Beckenried 1550 h
Stans 1570 h

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